Consent is a useful but also utterly bananas magic concept. Eg: *If you're 16, your ability to consent to sex depends on the age of your partner *consent only counts if it's enthusiastic *Must be verbal to count *Only important for your body, not your livelihood or property 1/
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So the actual cultural definition of "consent" is closer to: wanting/rejecting something that society deems is for the greater good, and where validity of that desire/rejection being dependent on how much power that person has. 5/
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To be extremely clear, I'm not arguing that since consent is a bananas concept, we should throw out everything. For example, kids often "consent" to sexual experiences with pedophiles because they're kids who don't know better; the bad thing here is the intense betrayal. 6/
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I'm arguing to quit consent as a magical concept. Take it off the pedestal; there's lots of other ways to handle understanding "boundaries around what we want", and it's often different for different types of situations. Thinking in consent just blurs what's actually going on.
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tax me harder daddy
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Sending kids to school without their consent is wrong. It's also wrong to prevent people from engaging in sex work or acquiring the drugs they want. Taxes are a complicated topic. Of course, most people are really inconsistent with this stuff.
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